.NBCNews staff could both see and hear mortars, grenades, machine-gun and rifle fire in the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain — although it remains unclear who was responsible.
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces — allies of the U.S. during the fight against ISIS — claimed on Friday that Turkish forces were not slowing down their assault.
However, cross-border artillery and airstrikes seen ahead of the agreement appeared to have halted on Friday with the no outgoing fire seen from the Turkish side of the border.came just as President Donald Trump pulled U.S. troops from the area, a move that has been met with widespread criticism for being a seeming betrayal of Kurdish forces that are allied with the U.S. in the fight against the Islamic State.
However, Kurdish forces were not party to the agreement, and it was not immediately clear whether they would comply.
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